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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



MRS. WOODROW WILSON : "l CHRISTEN THEE 'QUISTCONCK' " 



The First Lady of the Land chose Quistconck as a fitting name for the first ship launched 

 at America's largest shipbuilding plant because this was the Indian name for Hog Island. 

 There is an interesting story about the chronometer which has been installed on the Quist- 

 conck. It is a British-manufactured instrument, which was presented to a British sea cap- 

 tain by a German prince as a testimonial of the German's appreciation of British hospi- 

 tality off the coast of Brazil 75 years ago. As there were no manufacturers of chronometers 

 in America at the outbreak of the war, our new American ships are being equipped with used 

 instruments. The British Admiralty was asked to supply us with 700 of these delicately 

 adjusted time-pieces essential in the navigation of ships. The Quistconck 's chronometer was 

 one of them. 



a certain type of ship, it can order in 

 quantity lots. The steel mill knows that 

 separate pieces are of a standard size and 

 design. The mill workers, therefore, can 

 go ahead turning out these standard 

 plates in large numbers. The standardi- 



zation saves them from stopping now and 

 then to change their cutting and stamping 

 machines. Every halt of this kind in a 

 big rolling mill means loss of time and 

 labor. 



The same is true of all the other shops 



